Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (French pronunciation: [ɡi də mopasã]) (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer and considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protégé of Flaubert‚ Maupassant’s stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient‚ effortless dénouement. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who‚ caught in the conflict
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1 ( Total = 2 sec ) 4) WS = Sum of task times Cycle time (CT) = 148 sec 25 sec/units = 5.92 ˜ 6 units of WS 5) Efficiency = Sum of task times X 100%
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QUEUING THEORY INTRODUCTION Waiting lines are the most frequently encountered problems in everyday life. For example‚ queue at a cafeteria‚ library‚ bank‚ etc. Common to all of these cases are the arrivals of objects requiring service and the attendant delays when the service mechanism is busy. Waiting lines cannot be eliminated completely‚ but suitable techniques can be used to reduce the waiting time of an object in the system. A long waiting line may result in loss of customers to an organization
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Romantic tales can take many forms; some are sugary sweet with illogical storylines and even more illogical conclusions. The film The Painted Veil (2006) by director John Curran‚ an adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel‚ forgoes sugar for pungent truths. This story is steeped in the painful emotions of betrayal‚ resentment and the realities of marrying for the wrong reasons. Viewers are taken on a visually stunning and emotionally charged journey to the meat of the heart where love is not always
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A husband could divorce his wife for adultery (though even for a man‚divorce was difficult to come by‚ and carried a strong social stigma) but a woman could not divorce her husband even if he was cruel‚ deserted her etc. It ws possible to obtain a legal seperation‚ but that ws very difficult to come by. For upper or middle class women who needed to earn a living‚ teaching was one of the very few respectable options‚ and to be a teacher was not regarded as a particularly desirable occupation. A
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The text under consideration is the short story “The Escape” written by a famous English writer Somerset Maugham. The plot of the story is quite simple‚ though interesting. The protagonist of the story is a young‚ clever‚ well-mannered man rolling in money – Roger Charing. He’s such a gentleman to his fingertips‚ that once he so graciously managed to get rid of a woman‚ that nobody even noticed. He‚ our impeccable man‚ falls in love with Ruth Barlow‚ an unfortunate woman who was twice a widow
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instincts‚ more so like animals. Mustapha Mond explains to John that the reason for this is to tame the citizens like animals. john refers to citizens as animals‚ more like grasshoppers‚ to be exact:"Like locusts they came‚ hung poised‚ descended all around him on the heather. And from out of the bellies of these giant grasshoppers stepped men in white viscose-flannels‚ women (for the weather was hot) in acetate-shantung pajamas or velveteen shorts and sleeveless‚ half-unzippered singlets – one couple
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Mr. know all William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright‚ novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. Maugham’s style is clear-cut and elegant. The attitude of the novelist to his character seems mostly to be cynically sarcastic. A play upon contrasts and contradictions lies at the basis of Maugham’s sarcastic method in portraying his characters. The author often thought upon the problems of relationship
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The author and the title | Somerset Maugham‚ Louise | Type of text | Short story | Outline of the story | This is a story about woman that told by author‚ who is also main character in the story. It’s about relationship between them and about relationship between the woman and her husbands‚ daughter. | Setting of the story | Enigmatic‚ gloomy‚ sarcastic | Complication | The story has dynamic complication. In the beginning of story Louise is alone‚ but during the story she outlived
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A company’s capital structure is a very important component of a company’s financial health and longevity. The capital structure should maximize total net profit and overall shareholder wealth. An optimal proportion of equity and debt as a company’s capital structure is an indication of a well-managed and successful company and should be a goal for most corporations. Beverly Flax and Rick Rosenfield founded California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) in 1985 in Beverly Hills‚ California. It is a casual dining
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